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...crosses had no meaning. They were merely the latest fad. Fashion, Chikin, fashion-and profit. GUM Buyer Klavdia Mikhailovna picked up the trinkets for 330 each, presumably from a Czech costume-jewelry firm, which has been flooding Eastern Europe with such baubles. Klavdia put them on sale for $3.33, turning a neat 900% profit for the Socialist mother land. In the Soviet Union, where selling Bibles can lead to banishment, Klavdia was just a little too avantgarde. By week's end Chikin could report in a follow-up story that the doublecross to dialectical materialism had been avenged. Klavdia...
Carrot Friends. The other case involved a different kind of mike. In 1961, Frank John Mrkva, State Department visa courier and the son of Czechoslovakian-born parents, met Zdenek Pisk, then a third secretary at the Czech embassy in Washington. Aft er a number of casual conversations with Mrkva (whose surname means "Carrot"), Pisk became confident that Carrot was ready for uprooting. Pisk arranged a private dinner, suggested that Mrkva, now 38, might want to help the Czech Communist cause by doing a little spying. "Knock off the patriotism business," snapped Mrkva. "I'm interested in money." Pisk offered...
...Berlin police by creating a fire disturbance shows Hitchcock efficiently going through his paces--he has filmed variations of the same scene in four earlier pictures--but without his usual inventiveness. The final ocean-liner scene, where the fleeing physicists are found hiding in the costume baskets of a Czech ballet troupe, seems overly obvious considering it comes from Hitchcock...
...both sides of the Iron Curtain other men in other places were pursuing the same vocation, confirming the fact that Europe was indeed in motion. Last month Rumanian Minister of Metallurgy Ion Marinescu visited Paris; Russia's Leonid Brezhnev showed briefly in Bratislava; Czech Foreign Trade Minister Frantiśek Hamouz skipped frantically from Oslo to Budapest to Copenhagen, signing trade agreements. Meanwhile, Danish agricultural experts toured the backwoods of Czechoslovakia; Norwegian Mayor Brynjulf Bull concluded a scientific agreement in Budapest; and a delegation of Polish parliamentarians arrived in Brussels to have a look at the Common Market. Poland...
...troops had been killed in the first four months of 1966, nearly equal to the 19,000 that were infiltrated down the Ho Chi Minh trail from North Viet Nam in the same period. Down the trail must also come nearly all the ammunition to supply the Czech and Chinese weapons of the 30,000 North Vietnamese regulars now in the South. Whether by truck, oxcart, bicycles carrying up to 500 Ibs., elephant or pack, it is an increasingly perilous journey, taking three to four months at times, under daily U.S. bombing and strafing. Perhaps as much...